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Hi
Can someone shed some light on freesstyle and backstroke compared with breaststroke when it comes to swimming for fitness and weightloss.
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Originally posted by LindsayNB
Since drag increases in proportion to the cube of speed you will burn a lot more energy swimming a given distance faster than slower. Of course the "best" way to burn a lot of calories is to be very inefficient.
When I looked at the calorie calculators I was surprised to see that I was wrong about this. Swimming the same distance at a slower speed burned more calories, presumably because of the longer duration required. But if you add the calories burned just sitting around for the difference in time between the two rates of swimming it evened out. I suspect that the real picture is more complicated and that, like with lifting weights, doing an intense set increase the calories you burn for a much longer period of time that just while you are actually swimming.
Originally posted by LindsayNB
Since drag increases in proportion to the cube of speed you will burn a lot more energy swimming a given distance faster than slower. Of course the "best" way to burn a lot of calories is to be very inefficient.
When I looked at the calorie calculators I was surprised to see that I was wrong about this. Swimming the same distance at a slower speed burned more calories, presumably because of the longer duration required. But if you add the calories burned just sitting around for the difference in time between the two rates of swimming it evened out. I suspect that the real picture is more complicated and that, like with lifting weights, doing an intense set increase the calories you burn for a much longer period of time that just while you are actually swimming.
